Taken from History of Herkimer County by George A.
Hardin and Frank H. Willard, published in 1893.

JACKSON, Henry Eugene, Middleville,
was born near Middleville village, upon his father's farm. He was educated
in the district schools of this vicinity and at Fairfield Academy. At
nineteen years of age he entered the employ of W. W. Mosher, as clerk,
and in 1880 he bought an interest in Mr. Mosher's business, which he managed
under the firm name of W. W. Mosher & Company until 1892, when he,
in conjunction with his brother, Mr. Deville G. Jackson, bought out the
interest of Mr. Mosher in his general mercantile firm, which Messrs. H.
E. & D. G. Jackson have since conducted with marked success. Mr. H.
E. Jackson married Miss Emma Mosher, a daughter of Mr. W. W. Mosher. He
has two children, a boy and a girl. Mr. Jackson is a Mason, a member of
the Royal Arcanum, and identified with local social and benevolent institutions.
His brother, Mr. D. G. Jackson, is also a member of the Royal Arcanum,
and married Miss Hattie E. Mosher, also a daughter of W. W. Mosher, and
has one child, a girl. The firm own their homestead farm of 250 acres
in this vicinity.

JACKSON, I. E., Fairfield, is
a native of Fairfield, born in 1855, and is a farmer. His grandfather,
Elijah Jackson, came from Canaan, near Albany. In 1881, I. E. Jackson
married Jennie Enos. Mr. Jackson belongs to the Grange, and own seventy-five
acres of land, with a dairy of eighteen cows. His farm lies adjacent to
Middleville.

JACKSON, James O., Little Falls,
was born in this county. He was liberally educated in the Little Falls
academy and the Academy at Fairfield, after which he engaged in farming
in Fairfield and Manheim for several years, until the age of thirty-two
years, when he sold his farm property and moved to Little Falls. After
dealing in cattle for some time, he finally purchased the Grand Central
Hotel property on Main street, which he conducted until 1887, when he
disposed of it to Daniel Leahy and others. After this he purchased the
Jackson House, which he has since conducted, on Albany street. Mr. Jackson
married Emma Timmerman, and they have one son and two daughters. Mr. Jackson
also conducts a livery and sale stable in connection with his hotel.

JACKSON, W. E., Fairfield, is
one of the best known of the younger farmers of prominence in Fairfield.
He is a son of Varnum Jackson, still living, who was born in 1823. They
have 250 acres of dairy land, and sixty-seven cows. Both are Democrats,
and Willard E. is a member of the Grange. His grandfather, Elipah J. Jackson,
was one of the earliest settlers in this part of the county, and the family
is an old one.

JACKSON, W.R., German Flats, is
a native of Charlestown, Va., and was born November 26, 1858. He came
to Ilion in 1868 and attended the school here five years. He was for some
time a successful professional ball player and has been in the apiarist's
business for several years. In 1882 he married Miss Helen E. Denel. He
is a Republican. His father was John B. Jackson.

JACKSON, William W., Herkimer,
and Ira E. Jackson bought out the interest of their father, Mr. Washington
W. Jackson, in the old homestead and farm of 262 acres. They keep forty-two
head of stock and cut about 200 tons of hay and are most successful farmers.
W. W. Jackson is trustee of District No. 6, and pathmaster, also a member
of the Grange. Both gentlemen are staunch Republicans. The family is one
of the most prominent in this section and are of Revolutionary antecedents.
Their grandfather, Asa Jackson, served throughout that war. Their father,
Mr. W. W. Jackson, makes their place his home.

JAMES, Philip, Russia, was born
in South Wales, December 12, 1832, a son of Levi James, a native of Wales,
born in 1802. The wife of Levi was Mary Evans, born in Wales in 1804,
and by whom he had nine sons and four daughters. In 1840 Mr. James came
to Russia and settled at Prospect. He resided in Oneida county until his
death, September 28, 1884. Philip was eight years old when his parents
came to Oneida county. For fourteen years he was engaged in the mercantile
business at Grant. In 1859 he married Harriet Flansburg, a native of Ohio,
N.Y., by whom he had two daughters, Minnie and Harriet. Mrs. James died
September 28, 1865, and Mr. James married in 1881 Cynthia M. (Rust) Stone.
Her first husband was George Stone, a native of Oneida county. He enlisted
in the 117th N.Y. Infantry, Company H, and was killed at the battle before
Richmond, September 29,1864. Mr. Stone and wife had two children: Clarence,
who is a farmer in Russia, and Jessie, who resides on her farm in Russia.
Mrs. James was a daughter of Hiram Rust, whose father, Abel Rust, was
born in 1759, in Connecticut. He had eight children. Mr. Rust served seven
years in the Revolutionary war. Abel Rust came to Russia in 1818 and settled
on the farm now owned by Jessie Stone. He died in 1842, at the age of
ninety-three. Hiram Rust was born July 4, 1794, in Kent, Conn. October
11, 1822, he married Mary Taylor, by whom he had four sons and four daughters.
Hiram Rust was a farmer and geologist. He died February 3, 1886. He married
Mary, daughter of Samuel and Cynthia Taylor, early settlers in Russia.
Mrs. Rust died October 11, 1888. William P. Rust, the son of Hiram, was
born in 1827 and was a brother-in-law of Charles Wolcott, of the U.S.
Geological department at Washington. He was also a geologist himself,
having procured several of the best individual cabinets in Central New
York. He sold a fine collection of fossils to the State and has sent a
great many specimens to Washington. In politics he was a Republican. He
was identified with all movements for the church and was a liberal and
earnest Christian. Mr. Rust never married, but his niece, Miss Jessie
Stone, has been mistress of his home for several years.

JARVIS, David P., Russia, the
younger son of Thomas and Mary Jarvis, was born in Canavashire, Wales,
May 22, 1836; came to this country in 1841; 1843 came to George Pitman's,
in Russia, where he lived until after Mr. Pitman's death, which occurred
July 4, 1853. Commenced clerking in Prospect; February, 1854, came to
Poland as clerk in union store, where he remained until November, 1861,
when he enlisted in Company B. Ninth New York Cavalry. In 1862, while
on the Peninsula in Virginia, was taken sick with typhoid fever and was
removed to Patterson Park Hospital, Baltimore. As soon as he recovered
sufficiently he took charge of a sick ward, where he served eight months.
He was then given the position of mail agent for the hospital, and as
such served until the expiration of his enlistment, November 22, 1864.
July, 1865, he returned to his place in the Poland Union. In 1870 he became
agent for the store, which position he still holds. Mr. Jarvis is a member
of Newport Lodge, No. 455, F. & A. M., and of Poland Lodge, No. 185,
A. O. U. W. In politics is a Republican. October, 1866, he married Lucia
M., daughter of John and Thankful Gorton, who were among the early settlers
of Poland, having come here from Massachusetts in 1820. They had one son
and five daughters. Mr. Gorton was a manufacturer of axes and scythes;
died May, 1863; and Mrs. Gorton in April, 1882.

JOHNSON, Gilbert J., Ohio, was
born in Watervliet, Albany county, September 23, 1837, a son of Henry
J., who was a son of Peter F. Johnson, a native of Long Island. The father
of Peter F. came from Holland and settled on Long Island. Peter F. married
Hannah Ball, a native of Long Island, by whom he had five sons and four
daughters. He was in the Revolutionary war. Early in life he moved to
Knox, Albany county. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson died at Knox. Henry I. Johnson
was born in Knox, April 17, 1804. In 1834 he married Eliza Ferguson, a
native of Watervliet, born March, 1811. They had seven sons and three
daughters. April 2, 1850, Mr. Johnson went to Ohio and purchased a farm,
where he remained until 1855. He then went to Ashtabula, Ohio. Here he
resided until 1882, when he moved to Muncie, Ind., and died December 23,
1884. His wife is still living in Muncie, at the age of eighty. Gilbert
J. Johnson was educated in the common and select schools and at the age
of nineteen went to California and remained thirty-eight years, when he
returned to Ashtabula, Ohio. In 1868 he went to Ohio, N.Y., and took a
contract mail route, which he followed twenty-four years. He owned the
grist-mill and store at Grant four years. November 1, 1865, he married
Emily, a daughter of Albert Abeel, of Ohio, and they have two children:
Fred P. and Hattie M. Mr. Johnson is a Republican, has been deputy sheriff
nine years and was postmaster at Grant four years. He has been postmaster
of Ohio City since January, 1892. He was assessor three years and notary
public six years. He and his wife are Methodists. He is a member of Ohio
Grange, No. 686.

JOHNSON, Horace M., Little Falls,
was born in Schuyler. He received his education in the schools of this
county, and early commenced actively the life of a farmer. His father
was engaged in teaching school in Little Falls for a number of years,
afterwards becoming engaged in agricultural pursuits. The Johnson family
are of New England descent, membners of the family having served in the
Revolutionary War, the great-grandfather of Horace M. having been at Sackett's
Harbor. His father was born and reared at Eaton's Bush. The family now
owns considerable land at Schuyler, where nearly all of them are located.
Mr. Johnson's wife was Margaret Garry, and they have one daughter, who
is the wife of Frank Robinson.

JOHNSON, Jesse W., Schuyler, was
born in Windham county, Conn., April 25, 1806. He began to work in a factory
at the age of six years, and his life has been an active one ever since.
He came with his father's family to Schuyler in 1814. In 1841 he married
Caroline M. Shepard, of Rome, N. Y. They had two daughters, Elizabeth
W., and Charlotte M. (who died in 1868). Elizabeth W. married Lemuel E.
Gilbert, of Brooklyn, N. Y., May 20, 1874, but since the death of her
husband, in 1886, has, with her two children, Jesse Carolyn and Stanley,
resided with her father, Mr. Johnson voted for the first Harrison, and
has voted the Republican ticket ever since.

JOHNSON, Joseph A., was born at
Fort Herkimer, N. Y., September 27, 1836, and was connected with the firm
of E. Remington & Son's for thirty-four years, and with the exception
of the first few years was a contractor. Since the collapse of that firm
he has been engaged in the general insurance business and represents nineteen
of the best companies in the world. Mr. Johnson is one of the most prominent
Masons in the State, having held nearly all the offices in the various
Masonic bodies, and is past grand commander of Knights Templar in the
State of New York. He married, in 1858, Catharine M. Wildey, and has one
son, Edmond A. Johnson, who is associated with him in business, and one
daughter, who is the wife of M. Jesse Brayton, ex-county clerk of Oneida
county.

JOHNSON, Samuel, Frankfort, one
of the fourteen children of Richard and Sophia (Stannard) Johnson, was
born October 22, 1828, in England. His parents emigrated to this country
and settled in Utica when he was two years of age. He then moved to Litchfield
in 1850, and in 1875 came to Frankfort, where he has since lived. He was
married January 15, 1854, to Lovi H. Matteson, of Litchfield, one of ten
children of Laban and Susan Matteson. They had three children, Wallace
Myron, Alba and Ida (twins), all of whom are dead. Mr. Johnson runs a
dairy farm, having at this time eleven cows. Mr. Johnson died November
23, 1892, aged sixty-four years, one month and one day.

JONES, Dennison S., Winfield,
one of the representative farmers of Winfield, owns a dairy and hop farm
of 212 acres. He was born in Litchfield March 8, 1832, and settled on
this farm where he now lives in 1861. He is a son of William Jones, one
of the first settlers in Litchfield, and his father was from Nova Scotia.
Dennison S. Jones married, December 8, 1858, Alvira, daughter of Sewell
Slade of Columbia, and afterwards Litchfield. Dennison S. and Alvira Jones
have two children: Julius C., and Jessie E.

JONES, Hadley, Little Falls, was
born in Danube, N.Y., and was later educated in the Little Falls academy
and the Albany Law school, from which latter institution he was graduated
in the class of 1850, and at once entered into active practice at Herkimer.
He remained there until 1882, then removed to Little Falls and formed
a co partnership with the late George F. Crumby, which firm was dissolved
by the death of Mr. Crumby, in 1887. Mr. Jones holds high rank at the
bar, is a Mason of high degree and is identified with leading social and
political organizations. He married Henrietta Wilkinson, a niece of Judge
Robert Earl of Herkimer, chief judge of the Court of Appeals of New York.
Mr. Jones was elected supervisor in the spring of 1889. He has been solicited
to accept other and more important offices of public trust, but has so
far declined.

JONES, Henry D., Winfield, was
the first manager of the milk station called Cedarville, and started the
business in 1889. They make both butter and cheese. The milk is bought
here of the farmers and shipped to the proprietor in New York city. Henry
D. Jones married Lillie C., daughter of Mrs. Eliza Hayes of Unadilla Forks.
Henry Jones makes both butter and cheese.

JONES, Hiram, Winfield, was born
on the farm where he now lives October 31, 1830, a son of Richard R. Jones,
who was born in Danube, and died December 2, 1888, aged eighty-five years.
His father was one of the first settlers of the town of Danube. Hiram
Jones married, March 16, 1854, daughter of Conrad Folts of Frankfort.
They have five children living: George C., Oliver R., Wallace H., Elva
J. and Cora A. They have lost four children: James F., who died in infancy,
October 7, 1857; Eva May, died October 9, 1864, aged about two years;
Edith E., died September 9, 1875, aged about three years, and Mary E.,
October 17, 1879, aged about twenty-four years. Mr. Jones has served as
assessor of Winfield.

JONES, William E., Schuyler, one
of the leading farmers of Schuyler, was born on the farm he now owns July
18, 1845. His father was Richard Jones, a native of Wales. Mr. Jones has
a large farm of 225 acres, under dairy and timber. He is a Republican
in politics, and was commissioner of highways for six years. He is now
serving his seventh year as assessor of the town. He has also been inspector
of elections. Mr. Jones has two sisters living, Jennie Jones and Mrs.
J.S. Davis.

JOSLIN, Aaron V., Frankfort, was
born in Frankfort March 11, 1836. He as one of nine children of Lewis
F. and Harriet C. (Vinton) Joslin, both natives of this town. The grandfather
was Christopher Joslin, was born in Rhode Island, as was also his wife,
Abigail (Hall) Joslin. They were among the early settlers of Frankfort.
Aaron Joslin married, March 20, 1859, Rachel, daughter of William and
Maria (Pruyn) Bridenbecker of Schuyler. She died March 13, 1874, leaving
two children, Nellie, wife of R.C. Strachan and Lindley A. Mr. Joslin
married second, September 16, 1875, Sarah Adams, of Frankfort. In 1858
he started in business as a merchant, keeping a general store, under the
name of L.F. Joslin & Son. Since 1884 he has kept a dry goods and
wall paper store.

JOSLIN, Merritt F., Frankfort,
the only son of Sanford and Savally (West) Joslin, of Frankfort, was born
in Litchfield, July 22, 1842. Sanford, the father, was the son of David
Joslin (who was a soldier in the war of 1812) and Ruth (Mattison) Joslin.
The great-grandfather, John Joslin, was born in Rhode Island, and came
to Frankfort in early life (settled on the farm now owned by Merritt F.),
where he lived and died at the age of over eighty years. His wife was
Hannah Justin. Savally (West) Joslin, the mother, was a daughter of William
and Olive (Cady) West, he having been a Revolutionary soldier. Her grandfather
and grandmother were William and Nancy (Williams) West, the third generation
from Roger Williams. Her great-grandfather was William West, at one time
Governor of Rhode Island. Merritt F. was married September 12, 1866, to
Hattie C. Norton, one of three children of Wilbert L. and Henrietta (Wilcox)
Norton. They have two children, Minnie A. and Earl S. Joslin.

JOSLYN, George N., real estate
dealer and farmer, was born in Plainfield, Otsego county, August 1, 1832.
He came with his father and settled in this town in 1862. He is a son
of Daniel and Eliza (Huntley) Joslyn, who both died in Richfield. George
N. is one of the representative farmers of his locality, and one of the
most extensive real estate dealers of this part of the country.